13th TCI Annual Global Conference

India, the epicenter of the global economic transformation welcomes cluster practitioners, developers, researches, business leaders, consultants, investors, analysts, development agencies and anyone interested in competitiveness and economic and cluster development to attend the 13^th TCI Annual Global Conference to be held in New Delhi, India, on 29 November - 3 December 2010. Over 300 delegates from various countries will attend the conference.

The one-week conference will offer a unique opportunity to understand the socio-economic effect of cluster. A special business-matching arena will be organized throughout the conference, offering a networking point for delegates to meet with each other and Indian companies and organizations.

TCI is the leading global network for practitioners, policy makers, researchers and business leaders working towards improving competitiveness in regions and clusters. TCI is a NGO open to members from all countries throughout the private, public and voluntary sector. Its member base currently consists of 2200 leading practitioners from 100 countries.

Practitioners around the world are invited to submit proposals for presentations on the theme „Competitiveness, Innovative Clusters and Prosperity"

Format: Abstracts of proposed presentations should consist of a cover page and an abstract of the proposed presentations.

The cover page should contain: Title of the presentation, full name and title, name of the organization, country, job title, a brief CV of not more than 200 words, contact email address and telephone number.

The abstract should contain: Brief details of the main areas of the presentation and should be no longer than 1000 words. CVs and abstracts should be emailed to submissions@competitiveness.in.

Deadlines: 15 August 2010 Submission of abstracts31 August 2010 Notification for selected abstractsFor more information please visit www.tci-network.org/tci2010